Agree. Maybe we can get a little bit more than the 10 hours that we’ve been stuck on for the last 10 years. Maybe 12 hours? That would be cool, seeing as the MacBook Air used to have 12 hours of battery life
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iPad Pro With Mini-LED Display Reportedly in Trial Production, Late 2020 Launch Possible But 2021 More Likely
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μLED isn't really worth talking about at the moment, it's meant to still be years away even on Apple watch scale, much less for large iPad/ MacBook displays. The high contrast is the main benefit of OLED over LCD, so if this closes the gap significantly to me that gives you the best of both technologies, as you're spared burn in & PWM dimming problems and PenTile sub pixel layouts which are massive rankles in current OLED panels IMO.
I guess we'll see how Apple's done with it in the next 12 months, this seems a happy medium tech to me, you escape a lot of the downsides of OLED tech, while getting at least closer to the high contrast it offers.
In theory OLED is meant to offer the best response times, though there's commercially available 300Hz LCD panels with supposedly near 1ms response times while we're just now seeing 120Hz OLED panels in phones, and laptops are still at 60Hz as far as I can see... though that might be because OLED laptops tend to use 4K panels which really stress the GPU at high refresh rates.
End game? I can assure you that a company is working on something better than MicroLED.
After the dumpster fire that is the 2020 iPad Pro, sorry, there was no benefit to this model over the 2018 and I have owned both and returned the 2020 ones after they were all scuffed or scratched out of the box (great job China/Apple) and just kept using my 2018 IPPs. No performance changes were ever noticed and the Lidar has no purpose until iPad OS 14 and we'll be months if that away from the next IPPs.
I own one. No noticeable battery drain. Apparently there was a bad batch.
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Watching movies? Better dynamic range and black levels than LED. Also longer battery life, probably.
Please please no new iPad Pro this year. I bought the 2020 iPP and I really really don’t wanna feel in few months that it is two years old (compared to an A14X and miniled). Thanks
MiniLED rumors have been consistent for a year. The only question was whether it would be this last update or at the end of the year/early next. So it’s on you
They’re only using this crap LCD because nobody can meet Apple’s volume at those unpopular screen size with OLED.
Hate to break it to you but you bought a repackaged 2020 model. That’s just the facts.
No, I want it to be half as thin. I use my iPad as a note taking device by laying it flat on a table while writing on the screen with the Apple Pencil. I am very sensitive to touch. My hand starts to get uncomfortable when it rests against the outer edge of the device. The thinner the device, the less I would notice this.
Later this year? doesn't the iPad Pro get updated around every year and a half. Updating the iPad Pro this year seems too soon after the update in March.
I'm looking at updating from my 2017 12.9" iPad Pro, should i hold off or update now. If they release a new one in September-October of this year, with a bigger update like the Mini-LED screen and the A14X chip, that would be very annoying!
I'm looking at updating from my 2017 12.9" iPad Pro, should i hold off or update now. If they release a new one in September-October of this year, with a bigger update like the Mini-LED screen and the A14X chip, that would be very annoying!
Well, it wouldn’t be unexpected considering that the 2020 iPad Pro didn’t really change the SoC, and didn’t add 5G either.
Why update with the March one if they then plan to add another one at the end of the year. 5G isnt supported in most areas anyway (at least not here in the U.K.) and I’m perfectly fine with 4G when I need it, however I use mainly wifi and only use 4G in my iPhone when I’m out and about and need it. Most places now have wifi anyway.
I think I’ll wait and see, if there is a bigger update on the horizon I don’t want to take the plunge now when a few months later there is the A14X, Mini-LED and other potential updates.
This is 5G in a suburb of my city (Toronto).
Bell Customer Tests 5G Network Speeds, Burns 6.5GB Data in the Process [VIDEO]
Bell Customer Tests 5G Network Speeds, Burns 6.5GB Data in the Process [VIDEO] | iPhone in Canada
Here are some early speedtests of the Bell 5G network.
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the models this year werent an update. You’re kidding yourself if you think otherwise.
They clearly were an update! They added the Lidar and the A12Z chip. No matter how small, it was still an update.
And 6 GB RAM. Plus the increase to 128 GB storage in the base model was a nice bonus for someone like me, since 128 GB is the sweet spot for me.
I'm waiting for 5G and mini-LED though.
i mean youre never truly safe. When i bought the ipad 3...the 4 came out not much later. My 2 cents are to at the minimum wait for the new screen.
the 2020 ipadwas a terrible upgrade. It’s a 200-300 premium for a camera, slightly more ram, and to enable two graphics core on the same processor as the 2018.
they only released it for devs to play around with lidar before it launches on the iPhone.